Current daily newspaper ownership

Daily newspaper ownership if the Postmedia-Sun Media deal is approved

Postmedia will own a lot of newspapers in central Canada and the prairie provinces if this deal goes through, while Sun Media’s influence will be reduced to Quebec. However, the map also shows there are other pockets of media concentration across the country, where Glacier Media and Black Press control large shares of the market in Western Canada, Brunswick News and TC Media dominate the Maritimes and Torstar looms large in and around the Greater Toronto Area. And, of course, this map doesn’t include weekly and other community newspapers.

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